[sonnyblarney]

"Being state of the art doesn't imply that these things will solve these problems. "

I suggest you are misinformed about the state of AI.

AI is currently ahead of all other approaches in many fields.

It's lead to quite a number of practical advances and breakthroughs.

The 'best examples' are those that I described, but there are many more.

Your comments indicate I think some ignorance on the issue - I think I see the point you are trying to make but I also submit that you're not aware of what AI is doing today.

'Self driving cars' would be impossible without AI today, for example. The vision systems depend on AI it's a breakthrough without which we simply wouldn't have the tech.